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No matter what methodology you use, achieving a successful business or project outcome requires the effort of people.  The key is not only what methodology and processes you deploy, but more importantly how you lead your people.  How you lead the people involved in your program or project directly influences its success.

 

In the words of Stephen R. Covey, "...we manage things, we lead people".

 

We manage the processes, budget, issues and risks, but we must lead the people.

 

The combination of people, process and technology is where the business rubber hits the road.  Within the constraints of time, cost and quality we need to find a way to develop a successful business culture which delivers the desired outcomes.

 

I am available for consultation or personal coaching.  I can help you work ON your business as opposed to IN it.  I can facilitate meetings, workshops, rapid planning, brainstorming and training sessions and assist you to get your business strategy on track.

 

Why Use a Strategic Planning Facilitator?


Experience shows that planning sessions run by team members often become expanded staff meetings, rehashing old positions and leaning toward the strongest members' views.  An outside facilitator for Strategic Planning maintains a climate of openness and participation -- minimising personality and departmental differences and encouraging opinions that differ from the leader's.


The Strategic Planning facilitator constantly works to keep discussions on track and realistic. Working together to develop plans, the team becomes committed to implementation when it returns to the office.

 
In addition, my personal experience as a Strategic Planning Consultant in business operations and strategy supplies a source of insights and new perspectives to your team.

 

Why Coaching?

 

Today, enterprises require coaching and learning support to be provided to all their key leaders and managers in a continuous and timely way in order to build sustainable competitive advantage for the new knowledge-driven economy and compete successfully in the rapidly changing marketplace. Today's organisations need business architects who can take a wholistic systems view of a business and build synergies.  It is a lot easier for an "outsider" to provide the out-side-in view without the attached strings or baggage that accummulate in business structures and cultures.

 

Let's Talk


The easiest way to understand how I can help, and whether you feel that we could work together, is to begin with a conversation.  I don't believe in a "hard sell" and often find that people get value out of the exploratory discussion - whether or not we go on to work together.  Send me an email outlining what you are thinking about to start some communication...

 

Rob West AAIPM
Canberra, Australia

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 Leadership in the new economy
Today, we are living in a chaotic transition period to a new age defined by global competition, rampant change, faster flow of information and communication, increasing business complexity, and pervasive globalisation. The pace of change has become so rapid that it takes a different type of organisation and leadership to succeed.
 

Three Forces Driving the New Economy

  1. Knowledge - intellectual capital as a strategic factor; a set of understandings used by people to make decisions or take actions that are important to the company
  2. Change - continuous, rapid and complex; generates uncertainty and reduces predictability
  3. Globalisation - in R&D, technology, production, trade, finance, communication and information, which has resulted in opening of economies, global hypercompetition and interdependency of business.

Characteristics of the New Business Environment

  • New dimensions in business space get constantly created. Forces like technological breakthroughs, economic growth, market evolution, shifts in customer tastes, social changes, and political events can expand or shrink Business Space. Vast amounts of new Business Space created today change perspectives. This unoccupied territory represents a land of opportunity for the technological and strategic innovators who can see or create it faster than their competitors do. The opportunities are great, but so are the competition and the chance of failure.
  • Increasing complexity. Business space, technologies, processes, and business models become more complex. That is because new characteristics are added frequently, but subtracted infrequently. The dimensions of Business Space keep increasing, adding complexity and furnishing attractive new opportunities for those who can successfully navigate in the new environment.
  • Customer-driven economy. Customer power surged as customers have much more options today and can chose among many alternative suppliers.

If you would like to discover more we have a have day brefing, or a full day course to put you and your organisation on track towards Entrpeneurial Leadership.  Download the presentation introduction for details.

 Favourite quotes

 

"Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare"
 - Japanese proverb 

 

You manage things, you lead people
- Stephen R. Covey

 

The 7 Phases of a Project

1. Wild enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Confusion
4. Panic
5. Search for the guilty
6. Punishment of the innocent
7. Promotion of non-participants
 

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."

– John C. Maxwell

 

Machiavelli's caution for Project Managers

"And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new."

Nicolo Machiavelli c.1505 (trans. W. K. Marriott)